I flagrantly violate Copyright law!
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:30 pm
I've already pimped this in the chat about a bazillion times (this is a slight overestimate). If you've already seen this, whatever.
Anyways, here's the scoop. I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago. As it turns out, I was on a cruise ship (wooo!). Now, there is almost no point to going on a cruise if you can't eat. That would be like getting a gift from God and not opening it.
Now, I'm normally on Adderall XR, which stifles my apetite (basically causing me to fast - in the first two or three weeks of use, I lost about 15 pounds, which is bad), so I went without it while I was on the cruise. This had two main effects: not only was I suddenly capable of eating, but I was also more ADHD than usual! And that's saying quite a lot!
While battling through the food-induced state of delerium I now found myself in, I read through Volume 1 of Negima!, which I think is a highly amusing series. At the end, there existed a preview of the next novel. Because the publishers were lazy or something, it was in Japanese. This gave me an amazing idea.
I would translate Japanese comics!
There was but a single flaw with this plan: I don't know any Japanese.
Not to worry; I always have Plan B! What, you may ask, is Plan B? It's quite simple, actually. Others might go about the troubling task of learning Japanese or finding someone who knew it or somethingbut my Plan B consisted of the following: making shit up.
And so I went forth and for myself did acquire the Chinese version of Negima! Volume 1 (because I meant to grab the Japanese version but messed up somehow), scanned it with haste into the computer, and to the Internet did post what I now call my "translations" with quotes, the website aptly known as These Translations Suck!
Summary in case you skipped the above: I have decided to take Japanese comics, make up my own words, and post them to the net. Enjoy them or whatever.
In the event that you visit the website, enjoy what you see, and wish me to do the same with another series, go ahead and post said series' name here. Alternatively, post obscenities, condemnations, and whatever else you feel like posting here.
To any mods: I didn't post this in "Comic Pitching" because I think it fits a bit better here.
Anyways, here's the scoop. I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago. As it turns out, I was on a cruise ship (wooo!). Now, there is almost no point to going on a cruise if you can't eat. That would be like getting a gift from God and not opening it.
Now, I'm normally on Adderall XR, which stifles my apetite (basically causing me to fast - in the first two or three weeks of use, I lost about 15 pounds, which is bad), so I went without it while I was on the cruise. This had two main effects: not only was I suddenly capable of eating, but I was also more ADHD than usual! And that's saying quite a lot!
While battling through the food-induced state of delerium I now found myself in, I read through Volume 1 of Negima!, which I think is a highly amusing series. At the end, there existed a preview of the next novel. Because the publishers were lazy or something, it was in Japanese. This gave me an amazing idea.
I would translate Japanese comics!
There was but a single flaw with this plan: I don't know any Japanese.
Not to worry; I always have Plan B! What, you may ask, is Plan B? It's quite simple, actually. Others might go about the troubling task of learning Japanese or finding someone who knew it or somethingbut my Plan B consisted of the following: making shit up.
And so I went forth and for myself did acquire the Chinese version of Negima! Volume 1 (because I meant to grab the Japanese version but messed up somehow), scanned it with haste into the computer, and to the Internet did post what I now call my "translations" with quotes, the website aptly known as These Translations Suck!
Summary in case you skipped the above: I have decided to take Japanese comics, make up my own words, and post them to the net. Enjoy them or whatever.
In the event that you visit the website, enjoy what you see, and wish me to do the same with another series, go ahead and post said series' name here. Alternatively, post obscenities, condemnations, and whatever else you feel like posting here.
To any mods: I didn't post this in "Comic Pitching" because I think it fits a bit better here.
